Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-05

1HERE lS u ulS iOW uo"h III A0SA
ana political circles. There is no
doubt that Governor McEnery and his
political adherents have ruled the
roost in the Creole State for many
wears; but that has been supposed to
have been because their management
of affairs washable and honest. This
faction has had the warm backing OF
Major Burke and the Times-Democrat,
and the supposition has been that
neither the Major nor his paper would
lend their aid to bad men or bad
measures. A clique has s-sprung up,
however, which is made up of men
who envy those others who feed at the
public crib. Their cry is "Reform ~
It always is "Reformw The "outs"
always want to "reform" by getting
in. Outside OF Louisiana, and partic-
ularly among Republicans, it is gen.
eral.y accepted as an axiom that the
cry is made for cause. The following
from the Times Democrat may help
some of US to get little insight into
the reform measures of the Mich
oils clique:
Down at Willow Grove, in Plaque
mines parish, there were present at
late meeting, according to a "reform"
paper, 54S voters of the fourth ward of
Plaquemines, who pronounced for
Nichols. Is not this rather tough
warn to swallow? In the last guberna-
torial election "the persimmon par
ish" cast altogether only 573 Demo-
cratic votes. The Fourth ward is by
no means one of the largest in the
parish and at best contains somewhat
under 300 voters, many OF whom, we
Vare sorry to say, are Republicans.
Is it not a surprising mathe-
matical feat that a ward
with 800 voters, white and
black, Democrats and Republi-
cans, should turn out 54S supporters
of Nichols? Especially as The Times
Democrat published some time ago,
the organization of McEnery club in
this very ward (the fourth), contain
ing considerably more tnan half the
Democratic voters, and we gave their
names, too,-and they were not hotel
register names, as in the Shreveport
Nichols club. The McEnery organi-
zation must have had some foresight
of what was coming, for the resolu-
tion it adopted was as follows:
"The object of this club is to advo-
vate and promote the candidature of
our present worthy and heroic Cover
nor, Samuel Douglas McEnery, before
the coming State Convention, and to
watch any and all peculiar methods
that may be resorted to by the Mich
oils combination to elect delegates
from this ward to the parish conven-
tiOn."
Nothing like these 54S Nichols vot-
ers has been heard since the days of
Munchausen Or Falstaff.
Some of the reform" kilograms
from st. Marv's parish may explain
this discrepancy. On September
18th came the announcement of the
organization Of a Nichols Club in
Morgan City, with Messrs. O'Brien,
Green, Collins, George, Shinn and
Serrill, as President, Vice-President
and Treasurer. On September 14th,
we were told again by the reformers
of the organization of a Nichols
Club in Morgan City, with
Messrs. O'Brien, Green, Collins,
George, Shinn and Serrill as its
president and vice presidents; indeed,
Nichols clubs seemed to be springing
up in Morgan City, led by the gallant
O'Brien, Green, Collins, George ,Shinn
and Serrill. A correspondent charges
that these Nichols gentlemen we're
all Republicans in the last election.
We publish elsewhere the denial of
the secretary of one OF these clubs,
who declares that one out of these six
officers, president, vice. presidents and
treasurer of the club, voted for Mr..
Gay in the last hard-fought Con-
gressional fight in the Third dis
trict. We are glad to know that
there is one Democrat in the crowd,
but one Democratic vice-president is
scarcely sufficient foundation for the
Nichols clubs in Morgan City. The
"reformers" need something to blow
about, but their Falstaffian stories are
not likely to get much credit through
the State. Can they not give us a
Nichols club in Morgan City not or
ganized by Messrs. OBrien, Green,
Collins, George, Shinn and Serrill, but
with few good Democrats as presi-
dent and vice presidents by way of a
change?